00:00:00 China: Introductory statement 0:28 Chapter 23 The Age of the Philosophers: One (1) 3:36:36 Three (3) The rebirth of philosophy

@erictko85

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@davidhorn2248

2 жыл бұрын

😜

@unfortunatebeam

Жыл бұрын

👎👎👎👎👎👎

I have had years of delightful walks and meditations on these Durant works. What masterful oration by Alexander Adams. This is probably my favorite channel on KZread. China, Greece, Voltaire, I can listen to them twice a year and they never get old.

I read a few of their books on the philosophers back in my 20's. It was a great find to run across all these volumes on KZread. I love that these were all written far enough back to be unadulterated by contemporary culture.

@BertramShord

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that dangerous? Those unadulterated thoughts of dead strangers? I think i'm scared. And thinking is the most frightfull part of that. Save me tv-jesus!

@hillaryclinton1232

Жыл бұрын

@@BertramShord @Wife of Edward L. Bernays You are very wise man, all old peoples were Witches and Booger Men. The TV-Jesus tole me so.

@BertramShord

Жыл бұрын

@@hillaryclinton1232 yeah! And reading in general is the devils.... name a thing.... the devils pleasure i guess! On a different note. Great books, great to have access to them here. Happyness spreads like blissfull golden butter over the toast of my mind!

Rocky C...with your books by Will Durant ,you have showered us with GOLD. THANK YOU

@scattau41

Жыл бұрын

A "golden shower", if you will.

@johnsantilli7096

Жыл бұрын

@@scattau41 that would be Donald Trump. In fact I don’t think Trump has ever picked up a book unless it was about making money.

@scattau41

Жыл бұрын

@@johnsantilli7096 🤣 good one John. Cheers.

I am so fortunate to have these to listen to.

I don't know how I've missed you all these years,but I'm sure glad I found you now!

Bless your ❤ , Will Durant.

I was born far too late to invite Will and Ariel Durant for the best authentic chinese meal !

Thanks a million Rocky! Best quality content on youtube on this channel. We're getting a great free classical education here.

@darmok-hm6jx

4 жыл бұрын

@@DurantandFriends Please keep uploading.

@WilliBond0007

4 жыл бұрын

@@DurantandFriends No, it's not. Durant, his humor, ... that's what made me LOVE history in the first place. I had a slightly different education from most; my father treating more like an adult. My first encounter with Durant was pg 478-79 in Caesar and Christ when I asked him what our ethnicity was at the age of eight. Can NOT thank you enough for allowing me to listen to these. The news is so horrible. I LOVE THE DURANTS!

@WilliBond0007

4 жыл бұрын

@@DurantandFriends Bro, I have less time than you and have all the books on shelf and there's plenty of other great docs to watch on uTube, so I appreciate this since I am not buying the audiobooks. The Man who Made China, Xin Shi HUang, ... might be spelling that wrong. That's a _______ good doc on Zhong gua, you seen that?

@rizzamaeong

4 жыл бұрын

@@WilliBond0007 i wonder how old u are. r u Chinese?

@WilliBond0007

4 жыл бұрын

@@rizzamaeong Not in this lifetime, [Chinese] but I am open, very open to transmigration. Have a great love for East Asian cultures, Indian too. Took a semester of Chinese. Anyway, I am an American mutt and was born in the summer of love. ..... here is a good link on reincarnation, kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoZ7y9yqo6_bndI.html

Thanks alot, such great recordings of the writings of one of the loveliest souls

Thank you so much ! I am listening and learning something new.

Very good of you to put this up here for all of us, thank you..

Thanks. Will check this later. Just saying thanks again RC!

Thank you.

Will Durant was a genius without a doubt.

7:20:21 - nearly spot on prediction from Mr. Durant. From where he left off in his history of China, I assume this was written in the late 1930's or early 1940's & China was re-born as an industrial power 30 years or more ahead of Mr. Durant's schedule!

I'm short with words to admire this forum Please stay connected and keep updated

Somebody once asked Confucius about the life after death,Confucius replied “First learn to live this life we will worry about the life after death”.

@mixerD1-

3 жыл бұрын

They probably didn't really though. Once a person is dead all sorts of wonderful urban myths and quotes tend to become attached to them.

@dharmadefender3932

2 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@craigmason9893

Жыл бұрын

​@@mixerD1-yes at the same time thi, what made them worth listening to or remembering in the first place

These are interesting, thank you!

Great Uploads !

Am enjoying these

How can people dislike this?

@ccp_fact_checker

2 жыл бұрын

I think they do not like it because it is not a 5 second tik-tok and people can no longer concentrate for more that 1 minute.

@levimatthew8911

6 ай бұрын

They expected to see more twerking.

Gracias

Thank you!

30:45 - LAO TZU 45:00 - CONFUCIUS 1:03:20 - AGNOSTICISM 1:42:00 - MENCIUS 1:55:45 - CHUANG TZE

Very wise quote at the beginning…

4:48:41. How many times I've said the next sentence to myself when I go to a museum or an engineering marvel.😔 Thanks Mr. Durrant. Thanks Rocky. 🙂

Great work Rockyc. When and What's coming up next?

ENDLESSLY FASCINATING UPLIFTING ❤❤❤BETTER THEN ANY MOVIE..for a brief moment i was walking with giants .. so many sublime people existed.. i was taught the past was horrible...now i know its the present that is a debauchery of decadence and scientific obsceneties.. this is like fresh air..🐍🐍🐍🐍🐰🐥😁🎁😎

3:26:30 onward is about writing and really interesting.

Thank you, Rocky, for your altruism.

It's a bit dated, particularly towards the very end; but he makes up for this with his breadth and comprehensibility. I loved notion true or otherwise that," Rome fell because China built a wall."

What a pity that there are not subtitle such an extremely interesting topic. Thanks a lot.

TAO and LOGOS and GRACE.

hello, can i know whether you are reading books in your videos or are these your work?

How many videos are there ? Thx

Hey rocky do you have the files of the whole series available for download somewhere? I’ve bought the whole collection and it’s nice to have the audiobook on low volume so to set a pace for my reading

What we are told, Konfuzius (48:03) said about pupils - only the wisest and stupidest are beyond benefit from instruction - is very similar to what we were told Kant thought about how he should go about teaching. And i never saw both of them at the same time, in the same roome so...... might the moon just be the suns backside!?

25:12 5. The Pre-Confucian Philosophers 30:46 6. The Old Master 45:01 2 Confucius

Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

@thomasdonovan3580

6 ай бұрын

AKA Winnterpig

Been listening to this narration of the Chinese history and damnit, "China has died many times before and everytime, shes been reborn."

@DurantandFriends

8 ай бұрын

And you know who has the monopoly on the re-birth narrative.

Thanks for the upload

Hey Rocky, found one long enough for sleep.

25:49 He who renounces fame has no sorrow, Happy is the man who has no history.

@GreekOrthodoxRoyalist

2 жыл бұрын

history is like pain and salt with pain you know you are alife and how can one eat chips without chicken salt this days.

Hey Rocky C, what is the most profound thought that has popped into your mind from reading all these great texts over the years?

@ZainKhan-sm8gr

4 жыл бұрын

@@DurantandFriends HAHAHA seriously!

36:47 Lao-tze interplay with Rousseau, Spinoza and Hegel Pg 754

Is there a way to get the mp3 files of these

Hey thanks for the great content man but could you organize this into playlists according to the volumes of the story of civilization? Would be really appreciated

@monsieurali8484

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dron/RwvoZH2H2hgRDdnuKkt9fQ.html This guy has the volumes in playlists if anyone's interested.

@RajendraSingh-fz1zc

4 жыл бұрын

@@monsieurali8484 Thank you!

@festina_lente7655

Жыл бұрын

Greedy

Superb audio.

Wow..plz upload more

what book is this from?

25:15 - Pre-Confucian Philosophy 45:00 - Confucius 1:31:45 - Mo Ti?

@erictko85

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, 25:15 is especially good

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What book in Durant's series is this reading based on?

@jackshaftoe7241

4 жыл бұрын

It's from his The Story of Civilisation series, specifically Book 1: Our Oriental Heritage, Part 4: The Far East It was published in 1935 so Communism is considered defeated during the end, which makes the last section very weird

Unfortunatly the speakers voice is not clear enough at times to understand his words,this is so frustrating when one is glued to absorbing the imformation.I hesitate to reconsider the misunderstood words which makes me lose the following text spoken. Excellent though it is I wish they could select a voice with less Bass Drone and more treble tone to it. Best wishes all. OH! yes thankyou for the download Rocky,much appreciated.

@blahblahblahblah2837

3 жыл бұрын

When he said the influx of European pottery in Europe, displacing the finer Chinese wares, was similar to Gresham's law, I googled 'Breships law', 'brecias law', and 'breszcip's law' before I realised he was saying Gresham! The audio quality certainly does let down the quality of the content

2:50:13 4:06:39 5:04:07

03:43:41 "Good and bad are prejudices terms applied to things according to their advantage or injury to one's self or mankind nature itself, he taught, is beyond good and evil and ignores our egoistic terminology -- a pupil reports, or invents, a dialogue which might have been entitled "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" a little later he said, "this view of good and evil has its souce in the body and is probably mistaken" i was not able to comprehend the teacher said: "the purpose of heaven in bringing forth, is even as in the instance of flowers and grass in what way does it distinguish between good and evil? if you, my disciple, take delight in seeing the flowers then you will consider flowers good and grass bad if you desire to use the grass, you will in turn consider the grass good. this type of good and evil has its source in the likes and dislikes of your mind therefore i know that you are mistaken" i said, in that case there is neither good nor evil is there? the teacher said: "the tranquility resulting from the dominance of natural law is a state in which no discrimination is made between good and evil while the stirring of the passion nature is a state in which both good and evil are present if there are no stirrings of the passion nature, there is neither good nor evil and this is what is called the highest good" i said, in that case good and evil are not at all present in things? he said: "they are only in your mind"

1:30:44 Post Confucian philosophers.

Confucius appeared around 0:45.

Can you do one on Nikola Tesla?

@isaacforner6256

5 жыл бұрын

He's not making these. These are sections from Will Durant's "Story of Civilization," read by Grover Gardner.

@helloworld4404

5 жыл бұрын

@@isaacforner6256 Thanks for the information.

@matthewperdoni8845

5 жыл бұрын

R.I.P Will Durant

The Story of Civilzation: Book III - Our Oriental Heritage. The Far East - China pg.636-825. (Japan follows pg.826)

Chickity China the Chinese chicken 🐔 have a drum stick and the brain starts ticking

3:24

2:59:15

1:59:57

Oops! LAOTSE. not Kung Fu Tse. Me bad.

40:13 😅is funny bc it's true

5:05:55

5:53:33

Covid-19

Durant couldn't know that CPR recognize authority of Kung's "ethics". But he definitely knew and ignored Kung's teaching "the Government that can convince the people that a lie is true, is the right government." He was a pragmatist, just like all the controllers of CP, capitalist and feudal polities. Except the Calvinists (who Durant abhors).

39:39 yes christ is everlasting love so is true wisdom🎁

@DurantandFriends

5 ай бұрын

beautiful

1:22:00 Confucius as socialist

6:33:00

Loathsomely sped up&high voice due to speeding up. sux

@EY_YES

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

She was 21.he was 53!!!

@5:00:00

Is that a real narration voice? Sounds like that text to voice robotic thing.. ugh, either way, it's not easy to listen to. Slow the playback down bit.

3:04:12 - The most respectable for of literature in China is history 3:09:31 - Still, the people are slow of perception & easily beguiled 3:10:55 - In a conflict between superstition & philosophy, on may safely wager on the victory of superstition for the world widely prefers Happiness to Wisdom

@unfortunatebeam

Жыл бұрын

I prefer wisdom

3:11:42 - Eight - The Stage

When the East talks about serving under heaven, its almost the same metaphor as to follow the laws and commandments of God. They both designate a set of natural laws that if followed can bring forth the divine traits of every human being.

I wonder what durant thought about the US nuking china in WW2.

@johnmurdoch3083

5 жыл бұрын

@Don Ke isnt japan a chinese country? Duh moron.

@theConquerersMama

Жыл бұрын

Probably nothing since the country the US used nuclear weapons on was Japan.

@unfortunatebeam

Жыл бұрын

@@johnmurdoch3083 lol are you joking? If you're not, you sound really stupid

I hate that helium sucking audio.

This reading is much too fast!

@jayceewriter7826

3 жыл бұрын

Change the speed, it’s easy

@MG-ge5xq

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayceewriter7826 I tried. Does not work properly. Voice then is quite distorted.

Lots of facts are simply wrong. To MANY to count!!! Should've been more careful.

sped up....not good

sped up. awful

2:35:41 - Four - The Banished Angel, an anecdote of Li Bai (Li Po) www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-po 2:53:02 - Six - Tu Fu www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tu-fu 2:54:21 - ... For a long time I have lived in a cage. Now I have returned. One must return to fulfill one's nature. 2:54:33 -

Somebody once asked Confucius about the life after death,Confucius replied “First learn to live this life we will worry about the life after death”.

@mixerD1-

3 жыл бұрын

They probably didn't really though.